From the series “Senza perdere la tenerezza”, 2022
Senza perdere la tenerezza (Without losing tenderness) is the title of a book on Ernesto Che Guevara, a tome on the life of a man for whom my father had a deep admiration that he wished to convey to me, as if in some way he wanted to shape the figure of my hero.
These words accompanied me during the last years of his life and offered me a new perspective from which to process my father’s condition. In the photographs, presence fades away and leaves room for an absence that I observe from distance.
The intent of this project stems from the urgency to investigate what my relationship with my father represents. It is a visual account of a veiled presence, impressions of living a bond, what has been and what remains.